Sad to see a brand I thought was so cool in the 90’s just keep getting worse and worse as time goes on. Lincoln too. I will give Cadillac respect for keeping Cadillacs looking like Cadillacs. That is where it ends. XT and CT names are forgettable nonsense. Interiors are not too bad except for that awful CUE and piano black plastic. Lincoln has done right when it comes to names and interior but exteriors are pathetic for the most. Too foreign looking. The Continental had a chance to be real special exteriorwise. Navigator is gorgeous inside but exterior looks like an elephant that ran into a wall. Aviator is slightly better on the outside but still doesn’t do it for me. Good thing we have tons of old Cadi’s and Lincolns from back in the day to enjoy.

1 Nm = 0.7376 ft lb yeah, I like NM but then why not display the hp in kw. Anyway I would actually like more precision: call it the XT6 367. At least it means something and is not totally made up. It still is just as good as the german name schemes. Maybe even advertise it as "more then a Nm for each day of the year!" Would encourage people to use metric. yeah... right...

ps metric actually is better and we actually are silly for not using it. :P

It's a bit early for April's Fools, so sadly this doesn't seem like a joke. Though the fact that not only are they using a metric their average buyer doesn't really know much about, and not only are they arbitrarily rounding it up, but their even using a unit of measurement that no one in the US uses, but surprise surprise, it's an even higher number. So suddenly what seems like a pitiful amount of torque on a $60k car (271lb-ft), suddenly seems pretty decent once you use some fuzzy math to get it 400. Hard to tell who's system is more boneheaded, this or Audi's.

Though the fact that not only are they using a metric their average buyer doesn't really know much about, and not only are they arbitrarily rounding it up, but their even using a unit of measurement that no one in the US uses, but surprise surprise, it's an even higher number.

And the rounding up especially bugs me given the statement to the contrary. That's not the same as "rounding to the nearest 50" as noted in the article. If that's really what Cadillac said, and not a misprint, then Cadillac needs to go back to math class because 400 is not the nearest 50 to 367. That's always rounding up to the next 50.

Back in the 60s, Buick used to tag their engines by torque instead of displacement. The "Wildcat 445" engine was 401 cubic inches displacement. Otherwise, this is nonsense...

Indeed they did, as I noted above.

Check out this page from the 1964 Buick brochure.

Despite some decades having since passed, many of today's so called "experts" still manage to screw this up by claiming the figures instead represent cubic inches or horsepower. One of the broadcast hosts from a major televised auction actually stated that a bone stock '63 Buick fitted with the Wildcat 445 engine by made "445 horsepower" on live television, when in reality is was rated at 325 Gross HP and made something on the order of 230 HP by today's SAE Net standard.

In the minority here, but I like it. At least it is based on a real thing, unlike the Germans' naming schemes. They had to come up with something to differentiate the trim levels. Now they just need to focus on...just so many more things.

In the minority here, but I like it. At least it is based on a real thing, unlike the Germans' naming schemes. They had to come up with something to differentiate the trim levels. Now they just need to focus on...just so many more things.

True, but 'the Cadillac CT5367' or whatever is not exactly elegant. And I think rounding up what the power feels like or whatever is less of an outright lie than just declaring a turbo 2.0L to be a 350 because it 'feels like' it has 3.5 litres. What does that even mean?

It's no worse than what BMW and Mercedes do. In their cases, the numbers don't mean anything, other than the higher the number, the more powerful the engine. So Cadillac will essentially be doing the same thing, except using torque instead.

Get away with?! I'm a realist, so I know all companies have issues. Ze Germans are complicated for the sake of "sophistication" so whatever, and they pay for it in reliability. But when you consider materials, fit-and-finish, and pushing tech forward, there is no comparison. GM and Cadillac have some of the best engineers and stylist! Their concepts are TO DIE FOR! But when have you TRULY seen these attributes put into practice?

Terrible reasoning. Mercedes and BMW aren't struggling to stay relevant and most Americans (especially GM buyers) have no clue about what newton metre is. This is by far the dumbest thing Cadillac has done since phoning in the sorry XT6 to begin with.

You are terminally clueless. If those things were as bad as you seem to think, Cadillac wouldn't be brand that is dying. They get away with a lot because the fundamentally build a better car. It's something you domestic fans/apologists will never be able to admit or even grasp.

Terrible reasoning. Mercedes and BMW aren't struggling to stay relevant and most Americans (especially GM buyers) have no clue about what newton metre is. This is by far the dumbest thing Cadillac has done since phoning in the sorry XT6 to begin with.

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But at the end of the day, the result is about the same. They're going to end up using 300, 400, 500, etc, for their cars, just like MB and BMW do. Nm isn't even on the badge; just 400.